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Re:A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Me... by tylermw on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:24AM (#26437438)
The data on that USB drive will deteriorate over a couple decades. NAND memory generally isn't an adequate format for archival purposes.
Re:A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Me... by beagle3 on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:58AM (#26437868)
Indeed. The BBC’s Domesday book was put on a pre-CD glass based optical medium which should last forever, but they managed to lose reading equipment for it, and a huge digitization effort from the 80s would have been lost (they published a call for help, and eventually someone found a reader in their garage.... but it was a close call)
Re:A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Me... by JoeAltmaier on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:53PM (#26439396)
Yeah I see online empirical data that shows anywhere from years to centuries, depending on temperature. So not thousands of years.